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HorseWithNoName ,

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reification_(Marxism)

HorseWithNoName ,

There’s a station in Orange County they just shut down after it sat there unused for however many years. They already bury nuclear waste in the Arizona desert, they can’t act like that’s somehow off limits when they’re willing to destroy the rest of the desert with solar panels, wind farms, and lithium mines. It’s bullshit that the American desert is viewed as being empty and without value, unless it’s pretty enough to charge tourists and entry fee. There’s zero excuse for destroying what little we have left of our open land in the US. It will be completely gone before we even have time to realize it.

Why are these solar panels not going on top of buildings? On parking lots and parking garages? We never seem to have a problem finding more room for those? I know the answer is that it will cost more and they would need some kind of rights from the property owners. That’s still not an excuse to destroy the land, the ecosystems, and the species that live there. It’s fucking disgusting, soulless, and short sighted. Teddy Roosevelt is rolling in his grave.

HorseWithNoName ,

I am so sick of seeing our deserts destroyed, as though it’s somehow “empty” land. There are a million square miles of parking lots and building roofs in this country that we could cover with these things, and yet we would rather destroy ecosystems that are already delicate and millions of years old, with species that don’t exist anywhere else in the world. And then call it “green” while we do it. All of this because the government can’t be bothered to deal with (read: compensate) private property owners to cover their parking lots and roofs with solar.

They can say they’ll stay away from “sensitive resources” all they want, but that’s proven to be false in the past, so why should we believe them now? They’re only putting them within ten miles of existing transmission lines - next time, it will be within ten miles of the ones they’re building now, and so on until there’s nothing left. The sad part is that this comment will be immediately taken as being against solar and renewables, when it’s actually against destroying more of our untouched land and history for profit.

There’s already tons of solar fields and wind fields in the desert. Now they’re starting to open up old gold mines and create new ones, in the Sierras as well as the desert. Look at Grass Valley and Nevada City, where not a single resident wants some giant mining company threatening their town and their rivers, but apparently they don’t get a say about their own homes. Joshua trees have been destroyed by fires caused by climate change, and none of us will see them grow back in our lifetimes. They’ve destroyed important historical sites like the petroglyphs at China Lake and display fake ones for tourists. They’ve built Las Vegas nearly up to the edge of Red Rocks and there’s ugly mansions popping up on the way to Mt Charleston. They’re building a train straight through some of the last open desert in California east of San Diego and through the agricultural region of San Joaquin valley. They’re “cleaning up” the Salton Sea, but of course you can’t just trust that they’re not going to fill the area with McMansions after that so they can expand the tourist dollars of Palm Springs. They’re turning the western terminus of the original transcontinental railroad into a fucking strip mall called The Railyards and putting a farmer’s market in the old Southern Pacific buildings. Some Silicon Valley douchebags are building a “utopia” in the middle of the wetlands east of SF, destroying the ecosystems and birds’ migratory pattens that the region has tried so hard to protect.

In the next fifty years, there will not be any open land left in the US unless it is a lucrative tourist attraction like Yosemite. There is already hardly anywhere on the SoCal coast that doesn’t cost $20 to get near it, and half of it is private property when private beaches are supposedly illegal in California. Ironically, the last piece of wild coastline in OC is owned by the military. It’s just a blatant “fuck you” to our country’s wilderness, ecosystems, and history, and especially, it seems, to the American Southwest.

HorseWithNoName ,

Lithium mining is not good for the environment.

HorseWithNoName ,

The irony in this comment

HorseWithNoName ,

They already don’t have rights, but the laws are different from city to city. In some places they can’t be fed in public and people get arrested for giving them food. They can’t be on the sidewalk. They’re obviously not allowed to fall asleep as long as they’re unhoused. Plus parking restrictions created specifically to prevent car camping. Taking trash from dumpsters is considered theft. You can’t use a restroom without buying something and cities have taken out all or most public bathrooms, so it becomes a crime just to relieve themselves. Idk, the list is pretty endless.

HorseWithNoName ,

I thought the church was in Wisconsin and didn’t get where Ohio came in. The church and pastor are in Ohio, but the author is making a connection to the recent hypothermia deaths in Milwaukee.

HorseWithNoName ,

Scientology seems to get away with it fairly often. And all those holy roller type christian churches bringing conservative politics into their services despite their tax exempt status. But this is where we draw the line - keeping people from dying of hypothermia.

HorseWithNoName ,

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_theorem

HorseWithNoName ,

wonder how the hell this nurse got her license. You can’t be THAT stupid

Addiction changes people until they don’t even recognize themselves. It has nothing to do with smart vs stupid. They were obviously smart and competent enough to be given a license. It’s just that the person who did this doesn’t even resemble the person who got their nursing license anymore. If they’re able to get sober someday, they’ll be horrified at having to live with this the rest of their life.

There’s a reason addiction is considered a disease. The problem is when people mistake this explanation as an excuse for the things people do while in their addictions. It doesn’t excuse it. I just wish more people would make an effort to understand how addiction actually works because if we made any effort as a society instead of constantly playing the bootstrap/blame game, we could deal with it more effectively and prevent shit like this.

Also I don’t know anything about what’s in tap water, but when addicts use IV drugs that’s pretty much what they’re mixed with. Obviously there’s a lot of infections in that population, but also people who do it every day without tap water killing them.

HorseWithNoName ,

lemm.ee/comment/7759006

HorseWithNoName ,

Users inject with tap water all the time, it is super rare for the tap water to be the reason for infection and other medical complications

HorseWithNoName ,

That’s literally what addiction does to people. It makes them unrecognizable. That doesn’t excuse it, but it’s just the way addiction works. So many comments deriding this person’s intelligence when it has zero to do with that.

This is why addiction treatment and social services are so shitty in the US. People are so ready to insult others before trying to understand them, yet the solution to things like this require exactly that understanding. It’s like homelessness and NIMBYs. If they’re so concerned about the homeless encroaching on their property values, then they should take action to reduce its causes. But instead they’d rather blame, shame, and…expect them to disappear into thin air apparently.

HorseWithNoName ,

If it’s at all profitable it will end up being companies making up a bunch of new personas eventually. That might be good in that it’s more jobs per “influencer,” but also maybe lower paying.

Although I’m pretty sure this already happened with fake Instagram models and I don’t think it ever really went anywhere. It was just a novel thing for awhile.

HorseWithNoName ,

You should consider going back to college. Or just going to college. Or just reading a single book.

HorseWithNoName ,

The new generation of “clean your plate, there’s starving children in Africa.”

Saying “don’t complain because someone else has it worse” is the worst form of bad faith, uneducated argument. You’re the problem.

HorseWithNoName ,

Thank you. There’s apparently been a fine line between promoting body acceptance and shitting on thin body types. Some people seem to think it’s not even a natural body type at all and anyone who’s thin is just anorexic. It’s like we’ve been completely left out of the equation unless we’re being looked down on. Yeah, I’m right there with you on this.

HorseWithNoName ,

It’s a reference to the fact that energy cannot be destroyed, only transformed into a different form.

“The way I interpret this comment is” if this is all there is to it, then we should all be the same weight all the time, apparently.

It’s amazing what people think they can “interpret” about another whole entire anonymous human being they know literally nothing about, other than “thin.”

These comments are totally proving the OC’s point though.

HorseWithNoName ,

Does that mean that’s what actually happened or is that just what the family is accusing them of in the suit

HorseWithNoName ,

It was almost $40 just to renew my DL in my county. I swear it wasn’t as much in the last county I lived in, but it was just insane.

There’s usually discount programs for low-income folks, but the interesting part is needing proof of being low-income. Sometimes homeless shelters will transport people and help them fill out the paperwork and they have vouchers for the fee.

It’s crazy that all of that is needed when every data broker and arm of the government knows what you had for breakfast yesterday, but you still have to jump through this many hoops yourself to get something with your name on it.

HorseWithNoName ,

There’s a whole bunch of comments explaining how low-income people aren’t able to do those things either, especially banking, and how that adds to the cycle of poverty. For anyone actually interested in an answer about what life is like for impoverished working people in the US, I would recommend reading Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich and Evicted by Matthew Desmond. The level of poverty that exists in America generally is, and should be, shocking to the average American. I really hope the Amish comment is a joke because it’s so so incredibly wrong.

HorseWithNoName ,

It sounds ridiculous because they’re hitting on good critiques of capitailsm, but using the language of capitalism itself.

I think there was someone who wrote a book like this, circa 1865

HorseWithNoName ,

What happens when social security does run out and the millennials and gen z who have paid into it for years get 0 benefit? Ok, we’ve helped the boomers retire. But then when we need it it’s not going to be there.

HorseWithNoName ,

entitled customers who can’t do basic research deserve wrong answers

Yes everyone should know everything at all times, and whoever doesn’t is entitled for asking questions.

HorseWithNoName ,

Where the info comes from doesn’t exactly change that it’s a problem.

You can talk about media literacy, but why even have the thing exist if it can’t provide correct answers. That’s its only reason for existing.

HorseWithNoName ,

The part that got me is when they quoted the text of the bill and then linked to the bill.

But yes, the constant “slamming” of democrats is pretty biased. I can’t say I wholly disagree with that first paragraph, but anything that uses “land of the free” unironically usually has an angle.

HorseWithNoName ,

I see so many of these comments I can’t help but wonder if it’s an ad campaign by Kagi.

HorseWithNoName ,

that’s a common argument and was an argument against Measure 114. All it does is make it more expensive to own a gun

I wonder that law is for higher education. Or healthcare.

HorseWithNoName ,

The name brand in the US is Kraft Singles, but at least here that type of orange cheese is just referred to as American regardless of brand

HorseWithNoName ,

“Well it worked for me so if you can’t do it then you’re just not trying hard enough!” Don’t be intentionally obtuse. There are jobs in major cities.

People also have other shit in their lives you know nothing about. You have no idea what every single person does for a living. Maybe they work for the government and need to be near a military base, or the state capital happens to be a major metro area. Maybe they live near their elderly parents they take care of. Maybe they have family nearby who can watch their kids while they go to work and if they moved they’d have to start paying a ton in childcare. Maybe there’s a cheap private school there and they don’t want to have to switch their kid to public school. Maybe they have a chronic health condition or disability and need to live near the best doctors. Maybe one person went back to college and the classes they need are on campus. Especially if it’s a higher degree where they can’t just go to any community college in buttfuck nowhere. Maybe they had to move there for a postdoc fellowship. But why am I telling you when you already have all the answers.

Nothing new about living in New York being more expensive than Albany.

I met someone who moved to Albany to get an advanced degree and they hated it. They alluded to the fact that they were broke and living with a group of people. Unless you’re suggesting living out in the woods, in which case, sure. You’re right. I’ve heard there’s some great career opportunities out in the catskills.

We have no idea what other people’s lives are like and none of us should assume we do. Especially when you’re going to be a dick about it.

HorseWithNoName ,

That’s funny since there’s countless negative side effects to female birth control

HorseWithNoName ,

It’s practically impossible to get unless you’re over 55 or severely physically disabled. And good luck living on the payments anyway.

San Francisco homeless sweep was cheered on by the right. It was also illegal (www.vice.com)

Hundreds of unsheltered people living in tent encampments in the blocks surrounding the Moscone Convention Center in San Francisco have been forced to leave by city outreach workers and police as part of an attempted “clean up the house” ahead of this week’s Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation’s annual free trade...

HorseWithNoName ,

Food Not Bombs did it there ten years ago too. They camped outside of city hall every week, getting arrested over and over. They were finally given a vacant lot next to the freeway to freely camp in after that. It started after SC passed anti-camping laws, making it illegal for any unhoused person to fall asleep.

A lot of societies problems would be solved if they taught about forming healthy relationships in school.

Right now there is a loneliness epidemic throughout the world. More and more people aren’t entering relationships. Gen Z men are having significant trouble dating while there are some economic factors in the mix. From my own view and experiences combined with what I’ve read most Gen Z men are lack the social and...

HorseWithNoName ,

I would add: teaching that romantic relationships are not the end all and be all of life.

I feel like this is part of the problem, because it creates misogyny, incels and depression when people have their entire self-worth wrapped up in another person liking them. Any person. All of our media pushes this message, especially to young people. I was a serial monogamist all my life until several years ago. I’ve been more productive and accomplished and more in touch with who I am than I’ve ever been. I don’t have the need fpr another person in my life, and that’s how it should be. A partner should be an addition to a person and a life that is already functional. I can’t help but notice now how every. single. song, movie, show, book, etc. is not just about romance, but about another person making someone’s life worth living. It’s fucked up and we need to teach kids that they are enough, by themselves, and that being in a relationship is a choice. It’s not mandatory.

HorseWithNoName ,

Wtf is the point of this. Even if they wanted to save on labor costs of wait staff and everything why not just use your own card instead of trading it for a temporary card.

It’s like this pizza place I went to recently. They had a little arcade so I went to put some quarters in and realized I had to go buy tokens at a machine first. It wasn’t Dave and Busters or anything, just a hole in the wall with a few games in a corner. I didn’t buy any tokens. Same with laundromats that now want you to buy tokens ahead of time.

There isn’t a single business anymore that isn’t trying to just blatantly scam you out of your money. They used to at least be more subtle about it.

HorseWithNoName ,

It’s very much a real job.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullshit_Jobs

HorseWithNoName ,

Just curious what others do.

I stopped using them. I feel like the food delivery services are falling out of favor pretty generally which is a good thing. Especially because no matter how much the tip is, it’s always the same cold food with multiple stops in between the restaurant and my address. That part is not always up to the driver, but still a good reason to not bother with it anymore.

HorseWithNoName ,

I’m sure they just weren’t aware that starving your whole population is simply a “differing political ideology.” Cut them some slack.

HorseWithNoName ,

You should move there and leave the internet to the rest of us then. Why keep hanging out in the giant propaganda machine, right?

HorseWithNoName ,

Oh, they’re over on reddit. That place is a cesspool when it comes to posts like this one.

HorseWithNoName ,

deserve it.

Wow what an insightful, well-researched reason.

YouTube Is Monetizing Human Suffering at an Open Air Drug Market (www.404media.co)

The Kensington neighborhood in Philadelphia is one of the most brutally obvious signs of America’s public health crisis. The so-called “open air drug market” in the middle of the country’s sixth most populous city is where hundreds of people use drugs, some of whom are unhoused, usually without being arrested by the...

HorseWithNoName ,

Finally someone is noticing this.

I report this garbage every time it gets recommended to me on YT, which is way too often. These are real human beings going through the most difficult and humiliating experiences of their lives.

One thing that’s always overlooked about homelessness is the complete, total, utter lack of any privacy whatsoever. It seems obvious when you say it out loud, but no one seems to acknowledge it. Imagine every bad day you have, you have an audience. When you wake up in the morning after a shit night of sleep, everyone gets to walk by you, judge you, and gawk at how shitty you look. I’m sure not everyone in these videos is homeless (likely fewer than people would automatically assume), but probably a significant enough number.

The fact that there is anyone out there who believes treating people like they’re in a zoo and then profiting off of their suffering for “entertainment” is an actual, unfeeling psychopath.

The worst part is that there are a bunch of channels like this and even more videos. They’re not limited to addiction but exploit any marginalized people they can. I blame Vice for having constant drug/addiction content with no real message besides “watch this person shoot up for some reason. No, we’re not blurring their face.” Wtf.

HorseWithNoName ,

These arguments that always try to absolve giant corporations of any responsibility are so tired, and so nonsensical. They decided to start a company that hosts random people’s content, then they and the content creators can take responsibility for it and face the consequences of allowing for, and profiting off of, the exploitation of vulnerable people, bigotry, violence, hate speech, etc etc. There has to be a line drawn somewhere or else you end up with “free speech absolutists” who only allow alt right content on their platform. Gee, where have we seen that one before.

HorseWithNoName ,

this is the most idiotic reply I’ve seen on lemmy

Idk, I kind of like this one:

Gang shootings make up the vast majority of “mass shootings”

These gang members are the very definition of criminal, they know their actions are highly illegal. Making more guns illegal will not stop them

HorseWithNoName ,

Tbf your comments are a great example of why we do need universal mental healthcare. And better education.

HorseWithNoName ,

Well aren’t you special

HorseWithNoName ,

“Speed…and customer obsession are not typically associated with unions.” Gee, you think?

Usually giant companies like Amazon are overly concerned with optics. So one would think that the long list of “warning signs” to look for in your coworkers’ behavior would have made someone go “hey, maybe we should make this a little less fascist before we ok it.” Jesus fucking christ.

A survey on user experience in fediverse (Lemmy, Mastodon, etc.) (cryptpad.fr)

I would greatly appreciate if anyone could participate in the survey I created for my research about fediverse . it won’t take much time and it is hosted on privacy friendly service, cryptpad . all responses are anonymized. You don’t have to answer all questions. Fill as much you can and submit when you had enough....

HorseWithNoName ,

It worked for me, but I think there may be an issue with question 4. I used Firefox btw, but it did take a little while to load.

Good luck with your research

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